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Standard air

The usual Cortex air game: Aircraft Plant just after the start, Advanced Metal Extractor around 7 minutes and Fusion Reactor around 11 minutes, making transports and fighters for the team while scaling economy normally.

Usually transports first (72%)

#eco #team support #air · 547 distinct matches · 115 players · 79% of Cortex Air games · team won 47% of 615 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Aircraft Plant by 1:23

  1. Take 3 mex and open straight into Aircraft Plant.
  2. Finish Aircraft Plant, start pumping Valiant for escort duty.
  3. Get T2 constructor going to scale eco alongside air production.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to keep pace with team's economy.
  5. Bring Fusion Reactor online, keep making Hercules and Finch for allies.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 547 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Aircraft Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plant after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:22, middle half 1:13–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (38%)

    By 1:03 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 1:06 · typical 1:22
  2. 2

    Aircraft Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Construction Aircraft1 Con aircraft
    Army
    • Valiant5 Valiant
    • Finch2 Finch for allies
    • Hercules2 Light transport for allies
    • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport for allies
    • Shuriken1 Shuriken

    Some games also: energy storage (45%) · light transport (44%) · converter (39%) · con turret (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 13 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 36 steps
    1. Wind
    2. ShurikenShuriken
    3. Wind
    4. Solar
    5. Wind
    6. ShurikenShuriken
    7. Wind
    8. ShurikenShuriken
    9. Wind ×2
    10. FinchFinch
    11. HerculesLight transportfor Geo sea
    12. Wind
    13. FinchFinchfor Geo sea
    14. HerculesLight transportfor Beach sea
    15. FinchFinchfor Beach sea
    16. Wind
    17. ValiantValiant
    18. Wind ×2
    19. ValiantValiant ×2
    20. HerculesLight transport
    21. ShurikenShuriken
    22. Mex
    23. ShurikenShuriken
    24. HerculesLight transportfor Tech
    25. FinchFinch
    26. ValiantValiant ×2
    27. Con turret
    28. Solar
    29. ValiantValiant
    30. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    31. Con turret
    32. HephaestusHeavy transportfor Pond
    33. ValiantValiant
    34. Con turret
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 5:52 · typical 6:50
    36. ValiantValiant
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine20Wind
    • Wind Turbine5Wind
    • Energy Converter6Converter
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plant after 18 wind, 17 wind, 6 converterin 58% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret4 Con turret
    Army
    • Valiant9 Valiant
    • Shuriken1 Shuriken

    Some games also: con aircraft (36%) · fusion (33%) · light transport (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 8 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 194 steps
    1. ValiantValiant ×2
    2. ShurikenShuriken ×2
    3. Wind ×2
    4. ShurikenShuriken
    5. Wind ×2
    6. ShurikenShuriken
    7. Wind ×2
    8. ShurikenShuriken
    9. Wind ×2
    10. ShurikenShuriken
    11. Wind
    12. ShurikenShuriken
    13. Wind ×2
    14. ValiantValiant
    15. Wind ×2
    16. ValiantValiant
    17. Wind ×2
    18. ValiantValiant
    19. Wind
    20. ValiantValiant
    21. Wind ×2
    22. ValiantValiant
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. HerculesLight transport
    26. Wind
    27. ValiantValiant ×2
    28. Converter
    29. Energy storage
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. Wind
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Wind
    34. Converter
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Con turret ×3
    43. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 9:02
    44. Wind ×2
    45. Wind
    46. Wind
    47. Wind
    48. Wind
    49. ValiantValiant
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. Wind
    53. ValiantValiant
    54. Wind
    55. Wind
    56. ValiantValiant
    57. Wind
    58. Wind
    59. Wind
    60. ValiantValiant
    61. Converter
    62. Wind
    63. Wind
    64. Wind
    65. ValiantValiant
    66. Wind
    67. Wind
    68. ValiantValiant
    69. Wind
    70. Wind
    71. ValiantValiant
    72. Wind
    73. ValiantValiant
    74. Wind
    75. Wind ×2
    76. ValiantValiant
    77. Wind
    78. Converter
    79. Wind
    80. ValiantValiant
    81. Wind
    82. Wind
    83. ValiantValiant
    84. Wind
    85. Wind
    86. ValiantValiant
    87. Wind
    88. ValiantValiant
    89. Wind
    90. Wind
    91. ValiantValiant
    92. Wind
    93. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    94. Wind
    95. Wind
    96. ValiantValiant
    97. Con turret
    98. Wind
    99. Wind
    100. Con turret
    101. Wind
    102. Wind
    103. ValiantValiant
    104. Con turret
    105. Wind
    106. ValiantValiant
    107. Con turret
    108. Wind
    109. ValiantValiant
    110. Con turret
    111. Wind
    112. Con turret
    113. ValiantValiant
    114. Wind
    115. ValiantValiant ×2
    116. Wind
    117. FinchFinch ×3
    118. ValiantValiant
    119. Wind
    120. ValiantValiant ×3
    121. Wind
    122. ValiantValiant ×3
    123. Wind
    124. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:20 · typical 10:56
    125. ValiantValiant
    126. Wind ×6
    127. Wind
    128. Wind
    129. Converter
    130. Wind
    131. Converter ×3
    132. Wind
    133. Wind
    134. Converter ×2
    135. Wind
    136. Converter
    137. Wind
    138. Converter
    139. Wind
    140. Wind
    141. Converter
    142. Wind
    143. Converter
    144. Wind
    145. Converter
    146. Wind
    147. Converter
    148. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 12:40
    149. Wind
    150. Wind ×2
    151. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    152. Wind
    153. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    154. Wind
    155. Wind
    156. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    157. Wind
    158. Wind
    159. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    160. Wind
    161. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    162. Wind
    163. Wind
    164. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    165. Wind
    166. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    167. Wind
    168. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    169. Wind
    170. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    171. Wind
    172. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    173. Wind
    174. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    175. Wind
    176. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    177. Wind
    178. Wind
    179. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    180. Wind
    181. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    182. FinchFinch
    183. Wind
    184. FinchFinch
    185. Wind
    186. FinchFinch
    187. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 14:52
    188. FinchFinch ×2
    189. Wind
    190. ValiantValiant ×2
    191. Wind
    192. Con turret
    193. ValiantValiant ×3
    194. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Immort's (56 OS, 26/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Finch2 Finch to Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:51 · in 96% of games
  • Hercules3 Light transport to Tech or Geo sea or Geofirst at 2:06 · in 99% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport to Beach sea or Pond or Techfirst at 2:25 · in 75% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:40 · in 65% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo sea or Pondfirst at 1:44 · in 48% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:20 · in 84% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:03 · in 94% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

615 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039300
2:0092500
3:00145800
4:002052051
5:00276573109
6:003755125167
7:005136190219
8:007019220290
9:009335250341
10:0011795327471
11:0014399439641
12:0017100619962
13:00199489301269
14:002264113951807
15:002553020492701
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's standard support job, winning less than half its games while producing little combat impact but reliably feeding transports and scouts to teammates.

  • + Reaches Aircraft Plant almost immediately (1:23), fast T2 constructor by 5:58.
  • + Keeps own losses low (2789 by 15:00) versus other roles.
  • − Destroys only 2027 enemy metal by 15:00, minimal combat contribution.
  • − Fusion Reactor only completes in 57% of games, some games stall on eco.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Immort

55.7 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
448 metal received · 18873 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Aircraft Plant1:22Middle 50%: 1:13–1:35 · n=615
Advanced Metal Extractor6:50Middle 50%: 6:21–7:26 · n=590
Fusion Reactor10:56Middle 50%: 10:03–12:14 · n=375

Played most by

DRM36games of this buildAdeus33games of this buildCentientWaffle32games of this buildNutzz28games of this buildImmort26games of this build